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HUMOR: Church Complaint (Dance Version)

Orginally published on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 11:22 AM
by Todd Rhoades

Some people have too much time on their hands. This one is right up there with Blake Bergstrom’s "Pitching his Tents". Here is a phone call of a church visitor who didn’t like a certain member of the praise team. (Mistake #1: leaving your criticism on the church answering machine)

Listen to the phone complaint here...

Now, here's the "dance re-mix" of the complaint (Mistake #2: having someone on your staff with too much time on their hands)

Listen to the dance re=mix here...

Thanks to Gracehead.com for this lead!

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 12:07 PM

Thanks for another great laugh Todd!
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 12:30 PM

Oh, I just laughed coke through my nose…

Seriously, Todd, you should be ashamed of yourself for posting that. I actually found myself wiggling my butt as I listened, does this mean you’ve led me into sin?

LOL funny, that is too much. Thanks, I’m sharing that with the whole staff here.

Peter
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 12:50 PM

of all the songs to have stuck in my head now… back and forth from side to side! Thanks for the laugh.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 1:29 PM

I am the administrator of our church and I will be sharing this with our staff! It would be great to be able to laugh like this every Monday, when we get to hear what our members write or say about Sunday’s service. Thanks!
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 2:58 PM

I’d love to be at a church where the members and the pastor would “move their butt around...”
Spiritually speaking that is…
Now the standing on one leg? That has some sacreligous undertones doesn’t it? That’s a little much even if the song has good beat that you could move around to, side-to-side…
Thanks for the laugh. I’ll be sending this one around.
Ben E.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 3:41 PM

She was only being Biblical by turning the other cheek.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 3:53 PM

That was great! Thanks for the laugh. We get some interesting phone calls on the machine, don’t we but that one wins.
Posted by

Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 3:58 PM

Wow! This person is eather a tech genious or spent a LOT of time on this thing. Loved the way (s)he panned left, right and stereo. Nothing like a quality laugh!

Maybe it was a song used in her Christian aerobics class and she just couldn’t help herself!

Hope this guy doesn’t sit near me in church. While I don’t “dance like no one’s looking,” I worship mind, body and soul… Guess I’ll wait to see if I get a good talking to.

Thanks for the laugh, I’ll be sharing too!
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 4:58 PM

Question:
If you were to consider the original call a “stone” (refering to the “What Will You Do With Your Stones” posting) What would you call the response of the “dance mix?”
What if we all could/would work in our respective ministries and churches (members included) with the creativity, resourcefulness, humor and quaility that seems to have been displayed in the re-mix? Hummmmm....?
Then again, it could have just been a “rather cheeky fellow” with quick tech skills who found away to return fire with a humorous spin.
Either way, I think this recording has some legs!
Ben E.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 11:53 PM

What a great hoo haw… So refreshing to know someone who is an evangelist, minister and pastor was ‘a visitin’, and the only thing he took away from the service was a little wiggle. I thought he was going to ask for her name. RevJay
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 11:27 AM

Hi:
As I was sitting in my office contemplating how to respond to a member of our church who has decided to leave, I clicked on and listened to the voice mail from this guy and then clicked on the re-mixed version.
I couldn’t stop laughing! I don’t know whether I’ll forward this to the person who is leaving our church, but I am tempted!
Keep it up! Kind of puts things in perspective, that’s for sure!
Blessings!
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 4:05 PM

That is one of the funniest things I have ever heard. I almost fell over in my chair laughing at the remix. That will be stuck in my head for a long time. Ha-ha-ha
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 7:27 PM

Thank You Thank You Thank You!
This was the laugh I needed as I face these kind of assaults on a weekly basis. “from side to side”
Posted by Bernie Dehler

Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 7:48 PM

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.

RE: The article about dealing with stones… I don’t remember one of the recommended options being mocking and making jest in return. The caller was serious, and it hurts me to see the response from Pastors who laugh… doesn’t sound too pastoral-like…

The caller was genuinely concerned, and couldn’t have put it more graciously with still getting to the point, and he was roundly mocked by all the previous posters on this blog. We are called to be Christ-like, and it doesn’t sound like a Christ-like response… from many who are Christian leaders…

The blog response grieved me…

...Bernie
Posted by Carl Willis

Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 10:41 PM

I’m wondering if the media team at this church could remix all of my complaints. I know I’m moving my butt around from side to side.
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Monday, December 19, 2005 at 5:30 PM

I agree with others...that was TOO funny! I wish I could have heard the panning right to left, but the right speaker is on the fritz in our little sanctuary. I’m the new worship leader here, and I used to be in the caller’s shoes...obviously there are certain things we should never do in our dances (especially ones that are coreographed), but we all must wonder how much “butt-wiggling” David did as he brought back the ark…

This was one truly HILARIOUS dance remix...I think I will be wiggling my butt “back and forth, side to side” all night. I might have to let my Pastor hear this one. We all need to have a lighthearted response to those who criticize, rather than letting it get us down all the time. Again, thanks for the laugh!
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Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 3:53 PM

This was very funny. I am new at this and is has started off with a good laugh.
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Sunday, April 16, 2006 at 9:05 PM

LOL. Obviously none of you people have gone to a Black Congregation. They certainly don’t sit still nor are they afraid to move their butts. Big deal. It always amuses me to listen to folks complain about ‘dancing’ as though it’s a mortal sin. Lighten up. Move in the spirit and rejoice.

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